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During the General Conference, the following films will be shown at the UNESCO Cinema within the context of the "Intercultural Film Festival. For more information, please contact Mr R. Harguinteguy (Tel.: 84767)
| Screenings: 17 October at 2 p.m., 23 October at 5 p.m., 25 October at 5 p.m., and 2 November at 2 p.m. |
"Dialogue Among Civilizations in Central Asia" (June 2001)
Kyrgyz TV Documentary - 18 minutes - English version
- Against a backdrop of images of living cultures, this documentary follows the Round Table which took place in Biskek, Kyrgyzstan, (25-26 June 2001), when UNESCO announced its intention, in the context of globalization, to mobilize communities' vital resources to develop dialogue between cultures and civilizations.
"Mosaic"
by Deborah Phillips - 45 minutes
- In "Mosaic", Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs melt into images, drawings and photographs of intercultural sites - Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Ispahan, Cairo, Istanbul, etc. showing the convergence of cultures and interwoven spiritual traditions. This is an artistic project for peace, extending beyond national borders, without the need for words, a reminder of coexistence. The film expresses the hope that, one day, a renaissance will come...
| Screenings: 17 October at 5 p.m., 23 October at 2 p.m., 1 November at 12 noon, and 2 November at 5 p.m. |
"Villefranche Sur Mer: renaissance d'un port" (Villefranche sur Mer: Rebirth of a Port)
By Didier Airvault - Paramonti Productions, with the support of the UNESCO Mediterranean Programme - 26 minutes (2001)
Within the scope of the "Navigation of Knowledge" project, a network of historical Mediterranean dockyards, this port is an example of the rebirth of an underwater heritage. A place of memory, of departures and arrivals, meetings, communication, confrontation, interculturality, illustrated by the veiled silhouette of old rigging crisscrossing the maritime routes of the "inner sea".
| Screenings: 18 October at 2 p.m., 19 October at 5 p.m., 24 October at 12 noon, and 30 October at 2 p.m. |
"Dialogue Among Civilizations"
UNESCO - Montage by Nicolas Rusworth - 30 minutes
- As can be seen through the UN Round Table held in New York, on 5 September 2000, UNESCO plays a leading role in the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, 2001. Through its work in education, science, culture and communication, and in particular through the "route" and "intercultural" projects, dialogue between cultures and civilizations remains at the heart of UNESCO's mandate.
| Screenings: 18 October at 5 p.m., 20 October at 12 noon, and 25 October at 2 p.m. |
"Qu'est-ce que l'Occident?" (What is the West?)
Coproduction UNESCO - La Sept - ARTE - RTVE Spain - Arts Maillot
Extracts from the colloquium organized at the Alhambra on 27 March 1996. 52 minutes
| Screenings: 19 October at 2 p.m., 24 October at 2 p.m., and 30 October at 5 p.m. |
"Sur la route des croisades" (On the Route of the Crusades)
Documentary by Guy Darbois (1996) 70 minutes, Coproduction UNESCO-ARTE-Arts Maillot
- Jean-Claude Guillebaud, writer and former Director of Reporters without Borders, takes us along the route of the Crusades, from Clermont-Ferrand to Jerusalem, traversing eleven countries and showing how heavy this past weighs in the current explosive geopolitical context, despite the fact that the events are nine centuries old.
| Screenings: 24 October at 5 p.m., and 31 October at 2 p.m. |
"Les illuminations de Madame Nerval" "(The Revelations of Madame Nerval)
by Charles Najman - 55 minutes, In French with English subtitles - ADR Productions
- "The invisible is a mystery", the astonishing Haitian voodoo priestess tells us at the start of the film. What follows are the implications, expressed with more than a hint of humor, in terms of society and identity, which reveals the essential, fantastic and concrete link with Africa in this pragmatic and familiar religion.
| Screening: 26 October at 6 p.m. |
"La Tabanka"
by Giusseppe De Vecchi and Leonardo Pellegatta - 55 minutes - Productions Bel Air, supported by Muzzik and RFO
- In the Cape Verde, a cultural practice "performed" by the villagers enables exorcism, in a cross between celebration and psychodrama, of both the demon of theft and the past of colonial slavery. The camera accompanies the villagers disguised as kings, governors and masters, followed by musicians, going from door to door trying to find the "guilty one" and the reasons behind their crime.
| Screening: 27 October at 12 noon |
"L'Ouzbekistan, une étape du soufisme" and "Rencontres en Ouzbekistan" ("Uzbekistan, a Halt on the Way to Sufism" and "Encounters in Uzbekistan")
2 films by Denise Bauer and Pedro Nguyen Long, Produced by Betoule Lambiotte - 38 minutes per film
- Western Sufi mystics meet their counterparts from the Orient - a journey to the sources of the deep spirituality of the mythical cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent, etc.
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